Marduk
E38028
Marduk is the chief god of Babylon in ancient Mesopotamian religion, associated with creation, kingship, and the defeat of the chaos monster Tiamat.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Marduk canonical | 56 |
| Marduk of Babylon | 2 |
| Babylonian god Marduk | 1 |
| Bel (Marduk) | 1 |
| Esagila | 1 |
| Marduk in Enuma Elish | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T285327 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Marduk Context triple: [Mesopotamia, majorDeity, Marduk]
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A.
Enlil
Enlil is a chief god in ancient Mesopotamian religion, associated with wind, air, and authority over the cosmos.
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B.
Nimrod
Nimrod is a 1997 studio album by American punk rock band Green Day, best known for its blend of punk energy with more experimental and melodic tracks.
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C.
Uruk
Uruk was one of the earliest major cities in ancient Sumer and Mesopotamia, renowned as a political, religious, and cultural center often associated with the legendary king Gilgamesh.
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D.
Shaddai
Shaddai is a Hebrew name for God, often associated with divine protection and power in Jewish tradition.
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E.
Ptah
Ptah is an important ancient Egyptian creator god and patron of craftsmen and architects, especially revered as the chief deity of Memphis.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Marduk Target entity description: Marduk is the chief god of Babylon in ancient Mesopotamian religion, associated with creation, kingship, and the defeat of the chaos monster Tiamat.
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A.
Enlil
Enlil is a chief god in ancient Mesopotamian religion, associated with wind, air, and authority over the cosmos.
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B.
Nimrod
Nimrod is a 1997 studio album by American punk rock band Green Day, best known for its blend of punk energy with more experimental and melodic tracks.
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C.
Uruk
Uruk was one of the earliest major cities in ancient Sumer and Mesopotamia, renowned as a political, religious, and cultural center often associated with the legendary king Gilgamesh.
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D.
Shaddai
Shaddai is a Hebrew name for God, often associated with divine protection and power in Jewish tradition.
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E.
Ptah
Ptah is an important ancient Egyptian creator god and patron of craftsmen and architects, especially revered as the chief deity of Memphis.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (48)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Babylonian god
ⓘ
Mesopotamian deity ⓘ |
| absorbedFunctionsOf | Enlil ⓘ |
| animal | mushhushshu dragon ⓘ |
| appearsIn | Babylonian creation myth ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
creation
ⓘ
justice ⓘ kingship ⓘ magic ⓘ order ⓘ storm ⓘ water ⓘ |
| child | Nabu ⓘ |
| cultPeriod |
Neo-Babylonian Empire
ⓘ
surface form:
Neo-Babylonian period
Old Babylonian Empire ⓘ
surface form:
Old Babylonian period
|
| culture |
Babylonian polytheism
ⓘ
surface form:
Babylonian religion
Babylonian polytheism ⓘ
surface form:
Mesopotamian religion
|
| defeated | Tiamat ⓘ |
| domain |
Babylon
ⓘ
earth ⓘ heaven ⓘ underworld ⓘ |
| elevatedToSupremeDeityIn | Babylonian pantheon ⓘ |
| epithet |
Bel
ⓘ
Lord of the Gods ⓘ
surface form:
King of the Gods
Lord of Babylon ⓘ Lord of the Gods ⓘ |
| festival | Akitu ⓘ |
| language | Akkadian ⓘ |
| majorTemple |
Marduk
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Esagila
Etemenanki ziggurat ⓘ
surface form:
Etemenanki
|
| mythology | Enuma Elish ⓘ |
| opponent | Tiamat ⓘ |
| parent |
Damkina
ⓘ
Ea ⓘ |
| position | chief god of Babylon ⓘ |
| role |
creator of humanity
ⓘ
creator of the world ⓘ guarantor of royal authority ⓘ patron god of Babylonian kings ⓘ |
| spouse | Sarpanit ⓘ |
| symbol |
mushhushshu dragon
ⓘ
spade ⓘ |
| title | Bel ⓘ |
| typeOfDeity |
creator god
ⓘ
storm god ⓘ warrior god ⓘ |
| worshipCenter | Babylon ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Marduk Description of subject: Marduk is the chief god of Babylon in ancient Mesopotamian religion, associated with creation, kingship, and the defeat of the chaos monster Tiamat.
Referenced by (62)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Esagila
subject surface form:
Etemenanki
subject surface form:
Etemenanki
subject surface form:
Etemenanki
this entity surface form:
Bel (Marduk)
this entity surface form:
Babylonian god Marduk
subject surface form:
Northern Babylonia
this entity surface form:
Marduk in Enuma Elish
subject surface form:
Mushhushshu
subject surface form:
Mushhushshu
this entity surface form:
Marduk of Babylon